Introduction

Switzerland is consistently ranked among the top countries having the highest quality of life due to its economic offerings, public transportation, health care, and landscape¹. Switzerland is also noted for the quality of life and employment opportunities offered to foreigners[^3][4]. Out of personal curiosity, I was interested to find out how many non permanent and permanent residents were born in Canada, and where they reside. The goal is to determine whether the larger city centres, including Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, and Zurich, were home to Canadians living abroad.

Methods

All data was manually collected from a Swiss government website, STAT-TAB, for the year 2016, and can be found in the raw data folder. The data was cleaned in Python, using pandas (v0.20.1), and figures were generated in R, using tidyverse (v1.1.1), ggplot2 (v2.2.1) and ggswissmaps(v0.1.1). All figures were generated using the shp[["g1k15"]] dataframe from ggswissmaps, and cantons were mapped from the data to this dataframe. Two statistics were generated, the proportion, represented as percentages, of all non permanent and permanent residents who are Canadian by canton \(\frac{Canadian np/p}{all np/p}\), and the proportion, also represented as percentages, of Canadian non permanent and permanent residents by canton \(\frac{Canadians in Canton}{All Canadians}\). Extra figures without annotations are included in the appendix.

Results

Non Permanent and Permanent Residents who are Canadian

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Non Permanent Residents

Table 1: Extreme Values of Proportion (%) of all Non Permanent Swiss Residents Born in Canada, 2016

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Permanent Residents

Table 2: Extreme Values of Proportion (%) of all Permanent Swiss Residents Born in Canada, 2016

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Canadian Non Permanent and Permanent Residents by Canton

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Non Permanent Residents

Table 3: Extreme Values of Proportion (%) of Canadian Non Permanent Swiss Residents, 2016

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Permanent Residents

Table 4: Extreme Values of Proportion (%) of Canadian Permanent Swiss Residents, 2016

Table 5: All Representations of Canadians living in Switzerland by Canton

Conclusion

Appendix

Figures below are the same as those in the Results section, however annotations are excluded.

[^1]: Business Insider

[^3]: The Local [^4]: Swiss Info